Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-05-21/News and notes

News and notes

LGBT WikiProject featured in US magazine

The LGBT studies WikiProject was featured in US magazine The Advocate, a magazine with 165,000 subscribers. The article quotes project coordinator Dev920, and misattributes a quote made by Gmaxwell to Raul654 ("All new media are first explored by the minorities and the marginalized.")

Briefly

The Catalan government supports a marathon in the Catalan Wikipedia for reaching 100,000 articles in the Catalan language.
The Italian Wikipedia has reached 300,000 articles.
The Volapük Wikipedia has reached 5,000 articles.
The German Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
The Vietnamese Wiktionary has reached 600,000 edits.
The Indonesian Wikipedia has reached 40,000 registered users.
The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 20,000 edits.
The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 15,000 total pages.
The Welsh Wikipedia has reached 9,000 articles.
The Catalan Wikipedia has reached 60,000 articles.
The Spanish Wikipedia has reached 400,000 registered users.
The Lombard Wikipedia has passed 50,000 articles.
The Vietnamese Wikipedia has reached 600,000 edits.
The Serbian Wikipedia has reached 1,000,000 edits.
The Italian Wikiquote has reached 100,000 edits.
The Cantonese Wikipedia has reached 2,000 users.
The Divehi Wiktionary has reached 500 pages.
The Min Nan Wiktionary has reached 7,000 pages.